The Prologue

Letterpress printed by Walter Partridge of the Perdix Press, in the Cathedral Close, Salisbury, England. Walter, who had worked as a commercial printer, spent his retirement in ambitious letterpress projects, such as The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, where the original text is augmented by a modern translation printed alongside. The pages Walter gave me were not wanted for the limited edition book he published in 1984. He generously allowed strangers to look over his press and gave them all a keepsake such as this.